M83's latest double album, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming falls somewhere inbetween the neon synths of Before The Dawn Heals Us and the poppy nostalgia of Saturdays = Youth, yet manages to take the best of both and mesh it into a kind of electronic masterpiece.

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Hurry Up is definitely more bombastic than the rest of our Work Sounds, yet still manageable enough (after you get past the phenomenal starting two tracks) to be left on in the background while you type stuff into a computer. You'll still occasionally perk your ears up when your brain realizes one of your favorite tracks is playing (Raconte-Moi Une Histoire, My Tears Are Becoming a Sea, or Steve McQueen, for example), but I just use this as a sort of energizer to get me more motivated at finishing whatever it is I'm doing.

To get you started, the top track/video is track #1, and track #2 below is the first single, Midnight City. Sorry for the ad in the first one, since they've taken down all versions of that track from YouTube.